Segmentation Fault: Core dumped..;-)

Crack this problem and you can have Bill Gates as your caddy (or not)..:-)

Posted : June 4, 2004 at 1:59 am [America/Los_Angeles]

Before I get into the specifics, digest some of these excerpts:

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Humanity’s way of life is on a collision course with geology with the stark fact that the Earth holds a finite supply
of oil. The flood of crude from fields around the world will ultimately top out, then dwindle. It could be 5 years from
now or 30: No one knows for sure, and geologists and economists are embroiled in debate about just when the “oil peak”
will be upon us. But few doubt that it is coming. “In our lifetime,” says economist Robert K. Kaufmann of Boston
University, who is 46, “we will have to deal with a peak in the supply of cheap oil.”

National Geographics

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While oil demand is up everywhere, the U.S. remains the king of consumers, slurping up a quarter of the world’s oil about three gallons a person every day even though it has just 5 percent of the population.

National Geographics

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Let’s shift gears and talk about how internal combustion engines work. Essentially, a mixture of air and fuel is fed into a chamber and compressed, ignited, and burned. In gasoline engines and turbines the hydrocarbon is burned, while in diesel engines the hydrocarbon is exploded.

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So you want to reduce the world’s dependence on crude oil? Great, let’s get to work on coming up with an alternative hydrocarbon, not just higher mileage vehicles. There is no reason why in time science cannot come up with a hydrocarbon that produces the same amount of energy as gasoline on a per-molecule basis, is reasonable expensive to manufacture, and releases less carbon into the atmosphere (a gallon of gasoline releases about 6 pounds of carbon, and the U.S. alone consumes 360 million gallons of gasoline each day).

Jeff Nolan

To all the self-proclaimed geeks, nerds, hackers, script kiddies, engineers, scientists, i-am-the-man types, for once there is a very well-defined science problem to solve. Crack this baby and you can have the Bills, the Larrys and the McNealys of the world mowing your lawn as often as you like

Who knows, you might even succeed in bringing sanity to a certain troubled region of the world

- Anand

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